navamsha varga * astral plane mapping

The navamsha varga generally displays the psycho- emotional and higher-astral features of the
terrestrial personality (such as predispositions and polarities).

The radical kundali displays primarily the social and material outcomes.

The navamsha astral map might not be the ideal tool for predicting the material-plane future.
Use the D-1 for material-plane predictions (or sometimes the bhava-chalit).

One is not so much "becoming" the D-9. One "is" the D-9.

See You on the Flip Side

All beings are alive in multiple lifetimes and multiple dimensions. D-9 shows one of those
dimensions of ongoing and simultaneous experience: the astral life which is occurring in the
always-on, mirror-image obverse of 3rd-dimensional Earth life.

The social memory complex called Ra has a useful nomenclature for separating these two sides
of the terrestrial coin.

Ra refers to the social-material plane as Time-Space (where Time controls the flow of experience
and Space is secondary). Ra refers to the astral plane which surrounds and interpenetrates Earth
as Space-Time (where Space controls the flow of experience and Time is secondary.)

Astral (Akasha) Always Engaged

Humans have predominantly astral consciousness for typically 8+ hr/day during their sleep state.
The human attention shifts into the material consciousness for the remaining 16/hr/day. Yet
evenwhile one is "awake", the astral information is always humming in the background. It is
delivering a steady stream of other-life experiences, weird fears and lusts, prejudices and
phobias, fantasy expectations, and - for some - profound intuitive certainty, clairsentience, and
bliss.

In fact, for those who are aware of it, a detailed always-running view of the astral world is
always accessible in the waking state. It can be known by watching the viewing screen that
dispalys at the edge of the field of awareness. It runs like cinema with a continuous stream of
images, dialog, and music.

However so few people know how to watch this screen, so few have lucid recall of their astral
lives (dreams), and so few meditate or engage in contemplative reflection, that the attributes of
D-9 may seem unreal, mysterious, or woo-woo.How Many of Me Are There?

Folks may ask, "how can there be two of me, one D-1 and one D-9?" The answer is that there are
always two versions of the person operating in this planetary dimension and on further inspection
there are many more also.
There is nothing mushy, poetic, or super-esoteric about the D-9 map. It is the astral you. The D-9
is a bit more originating than the D-1 because the astral you precedes the material you. One
fabricates the incarnational plan while in astral consciousness, endures the plan under material
duress, then returns to the astral resting place.

D-9 is the pre-determiner * Mind (D-9) is the Builder

As the great psychic channel Earth Changes 1877-1945 Edgar Cayce often repeated, "Mind is
the Builder!"

Of the two planes, astral versus material, the astral patterns are lighter and more agile and
therefore slightly antecedent to the material patterns. So it might be more clarifying to appreciate
that the D-9 self works to pre-determine the range of possibility of the D-1 material outcomes. In
other words, what you really want is more accurately seen via D-9, and the D-1 shows what you
may do within the confines of the material plane in order to skillfully, materially, tangibly
manifest that deeper D-9 truth .

The D-1 shows the map of the material experience and the D-9 is the map of the astral
experience. They are two sides of the same coin. D-9 is not particularly about the future. It is
happening now.

(P.S. there is no future. Only a now. A very diverse, multi-dimensional, and elegantly complex
Now. )

Specifically, making a decision about Rahu-Ketu placements

Assessing accuracy of Rahu-Ketu placements is a two step process because one must not only
match the upagraha behavior to the biographical facts but also the graha ruler must be considered
in proving the position. To distinguish between two possible D-9 Rahu placements, look back at
what has occurred during Rahu bhukti periods in the past, and check significant samchara Rahu
transits too. Your biography is your truth-checker!

In general, Professor Bright Bhrigu is the leading significator of marriage-matters within the D-9
varga.

Zukra's qualities in D-9 should be scrutinized, linked to Zukra's behaviors in the D-1, and Zukra
as a kalatrakaraka predicting the harmonizing character of the wife-figure should be estimated.
(Wife is a social role, not an anatomical definition.)

Some Jyotishi opine that 9th-from-Zukra represents the status of adherence to the terms of the
marriage contract.

All graha in D-9 are important.

To estimate the relationship between the astral (D-9) aspirations and the social-material (D-1)
realities, each astralized 9th-portion graha in D-9 should be linked back to its behavioral
characteristics in the materialized 1st-portion D-1. The relationship between a D-1 character and
a D-9 character of a graha can expose the harmony (or not) between the psycho-emotional
imagery and expectations (D-9) and the concrete material consensus reality (D-1).

In the example below, note the D-1 Shani and D-9 Shani of de Mundi Systemate 1643-
1727 Isaac Newton . Shani as lagnesha is a defining graha in his nativity.

Professor Newton's legacy has imposed a lasting structure (Shani) upon the scientific (Shani)
thinking of the western Academy. He was a gay man prone to tumultuous romance (arudra-
Chandra-5) His mentality (3) while inventive (Meza) was also violent )Kuja) resulting in
aggressive feuds with his adversaries (bharani-Kuja-3). Yet his enduring contribution to western
science was highly dignified.

In 1689, Newton was elected to Parliament representing Cambridge (government, Shani) . In

1696, during Budha-Shani period and Saturn return his age 56, Newton obtained a royal
appointment to the position of Warden of the Mint. This role managed coin-manufacturing and
treasury, but it also allowed the appointment-holder to line one's own pockets with bribes and
other bonusopportunities.

Newton's D-1 Shani occupies Purvabhadra nakshatra, suggesting that his tangible, social-
material expression of Shani's strictly lawful, rigidly working character is outputting via the
conceptual, theoretical, scientific filter of Guru-ruled, expansive, big-picture Purva-bhadra.

Shani-yuti-Ketu puts Newton on the fringe of mainstream society (Ketu, dissolving edges). In
bhava-2, it puts Newton also on the edge of the mainstream scientific discourse (2) of his era,
causing periods of social obloquy. Per se, the D-1 character of Shani does not predict either his
scientific accomplishments or the social rise that he eventually gained as Warden of the Mint.

Consider then the character of Newton's navamsha Shani.

A significantly different Shani picture emerges from D-9, exposing the antecedent
intentions which form the seeds of Newton's unfolding Shani narrative.

 Firstly, D-9 Shani occupies the security-seeking, institutionally positioned, governance-

oriented Pushya nakshatra, suggesting that Newton was concerned not only with the laws
of physics but also with the governing institutions of his country,
 Secondly, the dispersing D-1 condition of Shani-yuti-Ketu is completely reversed in D-9
with a staunchly unyielding, enduring, opportunistic, corruption-in-service Shani-yuti-
Rahu-Pushya-6.

Energy moves from the spiritual dimension, to the mental level, to the astral-emotional level, and
only lastly into the material realm. Therefore Newton's inherent expectations and wishes, in their
 astral imaginary form, show that he intended to achieve a respected but corrupt government
position (Pushya Shani).

Rahu-6 is a strong and positive placement for success via toxic, polluted, diseased, corrupt, and
criminal environments. For this success to fully manifest, he needed to wait for several decades
(Shani delay). However at the age of 56 during the Shani-return and a Shani bhukti, he got the
appointment to Warden of the Mint, and after that his social rank was assured.

All of the divisional charts show

the fruits, attainments, results of life's basic
undertakings.

The goals, attainments ,fruits of any matter,

are seen in the bhava which form a 3/11 angle
to bhava-X.

 11th-from-bhava-X shows HOW THE

GOAL IS DEFINED
 11th-from-bhava-X shows native's
COURAGE TO REACH THAT
GOAL

The house which occupies the 3/11 position

from the matter in question can tell us whether
a goal is properly set and properly energized
to reach manifestation.

The fruits of dharma are shown by 11th-

from-9th = radix bhava-7.

Therefore a major fruit of one's dharma

= breadth of one's worldview = one's
marriage, and the spouse who along with self
creates the marriage emvironment.

Because dharmasthana-0 is the seed which

creates the outcome fruition of marriage-
alliance, to know more about the spouse and
the marriage environment, it is necessary to
inspect the astral-expectations of navamsha
varga.

Internal psycho-emotional interactions of

marriage environment are the outcome of
one's own implicit psycho-emotional
expectations. The interactions of marriage
create an echo-pattern which evoke often
ancient fears, hopes, dreams, wishes,
aspirations, from childhood and antecedently
from other lifetimes. The immediate
conditions of the echo-pattern of marriage
stimulus-response emotions is evident in
navamsha. Final-final-final outcomes should
be read from conditions of Zukra and
yuvathipathi within the Shastyamsha D-60.

Dharma and non-material, higher The psycho-emotional = astral truth of bhava-9

dimensional consciousness via D-9 reveals the seeds of this dharma-fruit of marriage.

The seeds display the true origins of marriage

interactions, as these psycho-sexual dynamics arise
first IN THE MIND.

Dharma = non-altered seeing, things as they

are, phenomena, truth without added attributes.

The religious implications of dharma = "accurate

teachings " = "accurate behavior" result from a
neutral, non-reactive viewpoint, seeing things as
they are without social conformity, moral judgment
or punishment anxiety (Shani).

The seeds (bija) = repeating psycho-emotional

patterns of any bhava, which are stored in the
treasury of accrued past-life influences, are seen in
the portions = amsha of that bhava. Amsha =
storage containers.

The amsha = the private, intimate seeds that


Q:
Most Jyotishi say that the D-1 and the D-9
must be interpreted"equally". Why?
They are two different charts. How can they
be"equally" predictive?
eventually create the public, visible fruit = marriage
= NAVAMSHA.
of course, the seeds of dharma have a major effect
on one's spiritual consciousness, children, and the
breadth of perspective signified by the overall D-9
influences one's ability to recognize one's fortune.
Everyone is blessed but rarely does everyone
realize their blessings. D-9 indicates whether there
is a working link between
 the aspirations, dreams, higher beliefs,
intuitions, clairsentience, psychic
certainties, and other non-rational realities
(D-9)
 with
 the tangible, materially measurable, three-
dimensional, public consensus-reality (D-
10)
The navamsha lagna = Swamsha = very important
in Jyotishavidya because D-9 lagna (particularly its
nakshatra) shows the higher path of conscious
awareness. There are infinite dimensions of truth.
The nature of a person's conscious awareness of
layers of reality beyond the D-1 social-material
concensus is not easily seen in the D-1. Varga are
important for the purpose of identifying meta-
awareness.
A:
The life experience = a series of projected ideas.
The ideas originate in the treasury of memory-mind
(conscious or unconscious = usually unconscious).
Each idea forms a"picture" . As the subject-mind
projects the ideas out of memory onto the mirror of

Q:
My birth time is fairly accurate but I've often
had a doubt about the accuracy of my
navamsha lagna.
How can I determine the correct rashi of my
navamsha lagna?
object-external-reality, a stream of pictures flashes
back at us. A sequence of Gazillions of
pictures. Each picture has an emotional tag attached
to it.
The Core Reality of human experience is *not* the
pictures. We are actually quite neutral to the
pictures themselves. Watching the projections fly
by is a strictly non-reactive mental event just like
watching a movie, reading a book, or playing a
video game.
The core reality of human experience is
the *feeling* that we get when we experience the
pictures.
 D-1 = social-material reality = the pictures
 D-9 = the psycho-spiritual experience = the
tags
A:
With your own knowledge of Jyotisha, you might
want to do some simple and often very accurate
assessments of 10th navamsha = career that can
expose the correct navamsha lagna.
The easiest method is to input your birth data into a
good Jyotisha software package, for example Shri
Jyoti Star. Then use the software to move the birth
time up and down, by one minute increments.
When you get skillful, change the D-1 + D-9
snapshots via 15-second increments or the
traditional water-clock unit = ghati.
The lord of the 10th navamsha is a reliable
indicator of career so make sure there is a fit
between

 what you do for a living

 the nature of the rashi upon the 10th bhava
in the D-9
 the behavior of the lord of the 10th
navamsha as that lord operates in the radix.
 BTW even if you've done a variety of "jobs"
there can be a consistent theme.
 If the Lord of the 10th navamsha
= ashtangata in D-1 or an uncomfortable
bhava-pati (e.g. Guru for the Thula D-1
lagna or Budha for the Mesha D-1 lagna)
then there won't be too much notoriety in
career even if that bhava-pathi is in a
hospitable rashi in D-1.
 However, if there is ANY graha in the 10th
navamsha varga, the career may be well-
defined and publicly recognized. (See
George Bush-43 for a huge Simha D-9 10th
bhava.)

To establish the nakshatra portion = rising

navamsha portion, look at the table of nakshatra-
navamsha correspondences = Pushkara Navamsha.

You can also check the marriage behaviors. Your

spouse-partner will have (usually) notable
charteristics of the rashi upon the 7th navamsha.
(About 20% of cases however evoke the qualities
of the navamsha varga lagna in the spousal profile.)

if you want really fine tuning, there should be a

match between your core attitude and behaviors in
marriage and the lord of the rising nakshatra. Of
course settling this question requires more neutral
objective self-observation than settling the career
question, but it can be decided accurately upon
guilt-free, should -free meditative introspection.
D-9 = Field of Psychic Expectation for Relationships with Other Humans
Matters of:
Marriage, Unions, intimate psychological and
emotional bargains, core relationship of the human
being with the Divine Presence -- manifest via the
partner

 Fruits (11) of Faith (9)= gain of alliances,

partners, mates, and agreements based in the
accrued life wisdom and faith in Divine
providence

topics related to Navamsha  Pushkara Navamsha = auspicious one-

ninths portions
Navamsha Assessment = sample first-pass  D-9 lagna and its lord: Basic Attitudes
readings toward Marriage
 Navamsha and Soulmate
 Dharma
 Swamsha
 Core Character of the spouse
 Spouse in navamsha
 Links between native's D-1 and partner's D-
9 (and vice versa)
 Disease via Navamsha
 Career via 10th navamsha

All Jyotisha predictions must consult the When asked to review a Jyotisha nativity, one of
Navamsha my first assessments = visual scan of the navamsha
varga = D-9.

If navamsha Graha are concentrated in only a few

rashi, then the radix lords of those high-traffic D-9
rashi are going to be major players in the native 's
life.
Why is the 7th house articulated in the 9th Because marriage and human relationship
harmonic? behavioris considered to be the most prominent
result of religious development in parallel lives .

The spouse(s) we marry in the current life have

been the spiritual partners in parallel lives . If we
developed compassion and understanding for others
in parallel lives , all should go well indeed. If not...

 Navamsha is an exceptionally valuable

varga for the key questions of life, which all
devolve upon how much and what kind of
wisdom has been acquired in parallel lives .
 Generally matters signified
by swamsha navamsha lagna = and the
bhava which Swamsha rules in radix, are
easy to accomplish in this life due to past-
life build-up of skill and wisdom in those
matters. (Not necessarily morally good or
profitable or approved ... just easy! If
Swamsha is a criminal planet there will be
an easy life of crime.)
 Navamsha gives a richly detailed micro-
view ones' disembodied life conducted
through psycho-mental projections.
Navamsha represents the psychic field of
perception, including hidden assumptions
and expectations.

What one profoundly expects to happen, will

happen!

(Not what one wishes or hopes or calculates, but

subconsciously deeply expects.)

Navamsha shows a great many things but pre-

eminently is profiles the marriage partner behavior
and shows the path of one's own spiritual evolution
via the discipline of steady commitment to
marriage. In every case the marriage partner fulfills

Meaningful events trigger strong feelings.
the subconscious expectations of thrills and
disappointments in marriage, and usually also we
can see the replay of the parents' marriage in one's
own navamsha. Luckily one can re-set the defaults
via meditation and intentional therapeutic change,
although this does require considerable self-
knowledge.
Particularly we live vicariously through the life of
the Spouse. Predictions for Marriage, development
of psycho-spiritual awareness, developments in
intentional religious education, moral
consciousness, and (following from spiritual
intentionality) happiness in general are read
through the navamsha.
The joy and also the unresolved conflict of one's
marriage situation is founded upon the physical,
electro-magnetic emotional, social, and spiritual
consciousness which obtained in parallel life (and
which usually continues unconsciously into the
present life).
A smooth and prosperous navamsha indicates
committed spiritual work in previous lives. If you
have reflected the divine in others so will others
reflect the divine in you.
Ideally, these strong feelings can serve as signals of
the underlying trauma to ego-membrane
development, which can in turn help the conscious
person to accept and heal childhood and past-life
trauma.
But unfortunately the default is simply to
experience the feelings on schedule, and maintain a
cycle of continuous, unconscious action/reaction
 and continuous seeking of someone else to blame..

(Let us pray for conscious intervention!)

D-1 Graha may indicate material manifestation of

people and events. However, navamsha determines
the psychic valence of an experience. As things
happen "to" one and around one, the mind
constantly reacts emotionally and infuse actions
with personal meaning.

 Exempli gratia, having a chronically late

partner may be a neutral fact (Shani) for one
person but a continuing crisis of rejection
and abandonment (Ketu) for another.
 The deepest psycho-emotional
programming is carried forward from
trauma embedded over many lifetimes. This
trauma-triggered programming is acted out
in relationships. The more intimate the
relationship, the more psycho-electro-
magnetic emotionally intense the reactions.

Navamsha can be dramatically determinative

because the psycho-emotional reactions to a
material person or event can be much more intense
than the normal five-senses perception.

Predicting the tangible effects
of Vimshottari dasha periods is a three-step
process:
1. D-1: examine the bhukti lord in detail
within radix, including His character, all
drishti He receives, all yoga in which He
participates
2. D-9: find the bhukti lord's position in
navamsha.
3. Back to D-1: find the ruler the bhukti-pat's
navamsha in D-1. The D-1 character of the
lord of the bhukti-pat's navamsha will reveal
the material effects triggered by the psycho-
emotional trauma underlying the material
 events.

The life experience = a series of projected ideas.

The ideas originate in the treasury of memory-
mind (conscious or unconscious = usually
unconscious).

Each idea forms a"picture" . As the subject-mind

projects the ideas out of memory onto the mirror of
object-external-reality, a stream of pictures flashes
back at us. A sequence of Gazillions of
pictures. Each picture has an emotional tag
attached to it.

 D-1 = social-material reality = the pictures

 D-9 = the psycho-spiritual meaning of those
pictures = the tags

For humans, events have value only when they

have meaning! Psycho-emotionally charged events
such as major public validationthrough marriage,
childbirth, professional awards, (or
invalidation through divorce, fleshdeath, firings et-
cetera.) are only importance because of the
emotional meanings invested in those events.

Navamsha shows the psycho-emotional experiences

in a person's life, initiated through relationships,
which interpenetrate and color events on the
material plane. The psycho-emotional qualities of a
Vimshottari can be extremely vivid and even cause
material decisions, especially if navamsha lords of
the bhukti-pat are stronger than its radix lords.
Therefore we always consider navamsha effects.

All All of life's truly meaningful events (for good

or ill) are trauma-triggered through the navamsha.
Q:
Namaste Barbara,
I am getting confused about whether to expect
navamsha results to demonstrate my wife's
behavior or my own.
Some astrologers say that the navamsha
graha in D-9 can correct problems with the
root graha in D-1. Other astrologers say that
the navamsha is a spiritual chart with no
material meaning. Others say that the
navamsha is only useful to predict the actions
of the marriage partner. Which of these is
true?
How should I read the navamsha?
My navamsha does have a few similar items
to my wife's D-1, but many (most) of the graha
are placed differently, so if I try to read my
navamsha as the"map" to my wife it
contradicts the"map" from her own kundali.
??
Maybe I am making problems by seeing too
many equal possibilities? Some possibilities
are factored out in some contexts?
Thanks for your guidance.
A:
You are right about all of the options for
interpreting the navamsha; and there are additional
meanings too.
D-9 = a rich treasury of information.
The process of interpreting D-9 patterns versus D-1
patterns can seem contradictory, tautological, or re-
iterative, as in"which comes first the chicken or the
egg?"
It is a bit complex."Navamsha studies "can be
approached from several different angles. Let's
approach the"past-life, future-life"angle first.
Immediate Future Life
In terms of lifetimes, D-9 indicates the 'default'
attributes of one's next life, in detail. The D-9
shows the direction in which one's thoughts and
electro-magnetic emotions are already flowing,
toward that next life.
As you know, we are all working on building the
next life / alternate life even now, during the
current life. The "next" life is not really next since
all lifetimes are occurring in the identical same
NOW. However, there is a viable Earth-based
perspective applying a linear sequencing to events,
and through that linear time filter it is viable to
assert that each "subsequent" lifetime sets where
the"closing set" of thoughts and emotions (which
one has been developing during the present
lifetime) leaves off. There is considerable multi-use
of resources across incarnations and what happens
in one of them consistently interacts with all of
them.
To ensure a pleasant rebirth experience, it is
important to be in the clearest, most neutral state of
mind at the time of flesh-body death in those
incarnations that involve fleshbodies.

How can the D-9 show both the spouse's current

patterns and the native 's future patterns?

 First the navamsha manifests in the spousal

behavior and then in the next life it will
manifest in the native 's material behavior.
Thus it is said that one will become one's
spouse in the next life. It's true.

Seeds * Bija

 Yes the direction and content can be altered.

However it is not common for people to
adjust the seed-qualities of one's navamsha.
It's not that hard with sufficient
consciousness. The main tool for release of
negative seeds (expectations) is forgiveness,
which is a super-powerful karma cleaner
that can set in motion a nice clean program
for liberation in the next life. Sadly,
however, most people are sleepwalking and
they just go with the flow of blaming others
for one's own mistakes and feeling upset
with the conditions of one's own life.

Time is Circular

Thus the starting point for the next life is not much
different than the starting point for the current life.
It might be infinitesimally advanced by a brief
awakening, but the awakening should be intact at
the time of death to establish an awakened
foundation for the next life.

The starting point for the next life, presuming that it

won't be altered via exceptional consciousness of
the present life, is the present-life navamsha. It is
quite a reliable next-life blueprint for the
sleepwalkers, and a powerful to-do work program
 for anyone who is trying to wake up.

Marriage and The main setting for education and skills practice in the present life is of
emotionally course the constant ego-pounding interaction of human-to-human
privileged relationships. The most powerful thoughts and emotions arise in connection
relationships with emotionally privileged, psychically interactive relationships.

Marriage-unions are first and foremost signification of the D-9, but also
other privileged relationships are encompassed in the 'field
of expectations for relationships' including employee-boss (check also D-
10 ), sibling-sibling (check also D-3 ), parent-child (check also D-12 )
student-teacher (check also D-20 and D-24 ).

 Future life conditions are based significantly upon present-life

experience. Future happiness depends on whether one can accept the
reality of the Other, inclusive of its many attributes, as sacred (if
mysterious) expressions of the Divine will.
 Or whether one remains stuck in the karmic punishment cycle,
emotionally reactive from ignorance, judging and rejecting the
Other's attributes as unacceptable, wrong, inferior, immoral et-
cetera.
 One's psycho-mental response to the behavior of others as indicated
in navamsha will to a large extent determine one's limits and
opportunities in the next life.

Present Life The D-9 script projects the (largely subconscious) expectation of Other, that
behavior of the which is "not me". Thus the D-9 defines the way in which one encounters
Partner the spouse, the way in which one apprehends the spouse's material
personality.
Other people might encounter one's spouse-partner quite differently. I'm
sure you've heard divorcing couples complain about some atrocious
behavior of their Other which no one else has even remotely noticed.

 A client not too long ago mentioned that during her divorce, she
claimed that her ex-husband had said and done some truly criminal
things to her and her children. Because of the criminal accusations,
the ex-husband's divorce attorney solicited"character reference"
depositions from the ex-husband's parents (who thought him a living
angel), his previous bosses (who described a respectful, reliable,
productive, a model employee) and even old friends and neighbors
(who found him to be a great guy, handy with the barbeque, liked to
fish, shared his tools et-cetera - the ideal neighbor). Even old
professors said this man was a good student, honest and disciplined,
a pleasure to teach.
 Good lord, what happened? Was this woman insane? No, she was
telling the truth. Her navamsha shows that the programming for
marriage is subject to prolonged and repeating lessons-gifts based
partly on her contractual relationship with her father. The D-9 seed-
pattern was surging with negative expectations of oppression and,
ultimately, attack. A psychiatrist and several police reports were
able to confirm that her description of her husband's violence (in the
deteriorating days of their long marriage) was accurate.
 It was the unique matching of their nativities which allowed her to
evoke this particular drama in him. Socially she was criticized for
instigating his harmful behavior. However according to Jyotisha she
was simply acting out a historic programme, and this man had the
perfect set of triggers that allowed her to "push his buttons ".

The partner enacts one's own subconscious unrecognized programming. the

extent that one is aware of one's own expectations - perhaps as a result of
meditation, psychological inquiry, prayerful reflection, or Jyotisha study -
one will not be entirely surprised when a new drama emerges in the intimate
relationship. Perhaps no one else even sees it.

Yet the experience of the seeds of expectation rather suddenly sprouting

into drama is quite authentic within one's own reality.

Emotionally privileged partners serve as the material mirror of one's own

beliefs and expectations.
Present life Navamsha shows the native 's astral personality, which could be called the
conditions of the 'field of psycho-emotional expectation'.
native
Previous to material manifestation of any event, there is a very long chain
of build-up. Signals originate on the spiritual plane. If not directly
apprehended in their spiritual nature (which is rare; few people are skilled
enough to see things "as they are")

 D-1 shows the main patterns of materialization in one's own life. D-

1 is the result of past-life karma which has already passed the
gateway from the astral particle shape into the material particle
shape. D-1 patterns are destined to manifest in the sense-data world
of physical and social reality.
 The D-1 reality is a tangible world of experiences that can be
described by a vocabulary that most people would recognize as the
shared human frame of reference.It is rarely so vague and
psychologically intuitive rather than rational as the D-9 can be.
 The D-1 describes ideas and expectations which have not been
halted at higher levels of consciousness. D-1 patterns are barreling
down the path of materialization and are difficult to retract. (Not
impossible, but difficult. )
 It is generally recommended to adopt an attitude of neutrality toward
the characteristics of the D-1, since they are controlled by physical-
plane and social-plane laws (Shani) which operate in a very slow,
rigid, regulated, time-enslaved fashion.
 Matters of the D-9 are more ephemeral. Although matters of the D-9
are harder to detect because of their subtle particulate constitution,
D-9 patterns are also easier to change if one is able to grasp these
ghostly seeds before they blossom.
 The D-9 has a significant role in determining the outcome of the
present-time manifestation pattern for the native, via one's reaction
to the behavior of others. The vast majority of the creative life force
is engaged in reacting to other people.

Present life psycho- Things only develop on a material level if there is either (1)significant
spiritual agenda ignorance of the astral and causal seeds so that one is unable to control the
unfoldment of experience (2) the astral-causal motive is strong and
 purposefully focused on a specific materialization for the benefit of others.

 Generally it is less beneficial for astral imagery to materialize

because material experiences are so gross and cumbersome and hard
to change once the pattern reaches the material plane. It's so much
easier to work in the magic (imagery) realms where ideas and
electro-magnetic emotions are fluid and fast-changing.
 The navamsha is a good place to look to see what is getting ready to
blossom on the astral plane. What are one's (usually unconscious)
beliefs and expectations? The first level of materialization, before
one's script manifests in the material world, is that it will dramatize
in the spouse.
 One will be tightly matched with a partner who has the central
characteristics of D-9's seventh rashi and in addition all of the other
characteristics of the D-9 will eventually manifest -- e.g., partner's
profession, partner's family, partner's mental health.

Psychic Projection Try to remember that the partner = a projection of one's own
creates the Other unacknowledged interior field of expectations. At the root of truth, the
partner is not really a separate person. You two share a level of delusion,
that's all.

 When there is a need for adjustment in the marriage, one rarely

(without meditative awareness) says 'I want to be the origin of this
marriage adjustment'. More normally, one says, 'I want my spouse to
change their behavior'.
 Many men in cultures around the world rely on women to act out
their emotions; many women similarly rely on men to make their
social, professional, and financial decisions.
 Rather than say, 'I want to feel differently in this partnership', the
typical man may say, 'I want my partner to treat me better'. And the
typical female may say, 'I want my male partner to be more
financially powerful or more professionally ambitious'.
 of course the lines of division of responsibility by gender are
changing in modern societies but the projection syndrome remains
the same. Partnerships are without exception the result of matching
energy.
 The partner can only do what one expects the partner to do. Albeit
 that awareness of the expectations maybe deeply buried under
generations of heavy karma of blaming and victim-mind. The D-9
will reveal it.

Spiritual practice The partner is not ultimately to blame for whatever happens in the marriage.
points: If the partner does socially criminal actions, then social law will punish the
criminal.

 Within an intimate relationship however there is much more

involved than simple actions. Actions on the material plane are
always the result of higher-up patterns; the material plane is never
the cause of anything. Material level is the"last stop" on the tagged-
image projection route, the dumping grounds for unacknowledged
karma. ("The buck stops here, on the material plane!")
 of course, if marriage or other privileged relationship (even with
one's government) has become violent or terribly unsatisfying or
oppressive in some unbearable way, it can be highly desirable to end
an extremely negative mirroring relationship. One may be
completely unable to handle the violence or abusiveness of one's
own projections.
 In that case: take a break, and do some spiritual strengthening,
before heading back into intensive-projection interactions again!
However it is critically important to remember that the evil-doer, no
matter how vile, is mirroring back one's own unacknowledged script
for privileged relationship.
 Negative experience in privileged emotional relationship should
appear as a fairly obvious feature of the D-9. If one is able to detect
the negative expectations (and positive ones too!) in D-9 one can
gain a tremendous advantage in understanding and predicting the
course of life.

One's own past-life Most of the karma-reinforcing (not karma-releasing) relationship reactivity
and early childhood of the present lifetime is attributable to the way in which one was raised by
of the present life the parents.
  One's adult marriage assumptions, principles, reactions, and other
behaviors by default repeat the assumptions, reactions,et-
cetera. behaviors of one's parents or primary adult role models from
childhood.
 Modern psychology asserts that the deep wheel-rutsof the largely
unconscious relationship patterns of one's parents (and other adult
pairings such as grandparent sets, close aunt-uncles) will have an
over-determining influence upon one's own marriage choices and
expectations.
 As the student of Jyotisha becomes more skillful in comparing
various nativities, it becomes increasingly obvious how much
matching there is between the nativities of one's parents and oneself.

D-9 and Family Within a family there is always a predominant pattern = "family culture".
Patterns
Once the Jyotisha pattern-recognition skills are sharpened, one can detect
the path along which the parents' unrecognized blaming karma has simply
transmitted to the next generation.

 At this level of analysis it is recognized that one's partner (husband,

wife, S.O.) has nothing at all to do with one's experience of the
privileged union. One is simply carrying forward an ancient family
lineage, reacting to a partner in the prescribed fashion which is the
family custom.
 The carry-forward of family relationship patterns into marriage is
one of the reasons that arranged marriages within a uniform cultural
group are often easier. Not perhaps as fertile with potential for
enlightenment as a truly incompatible cross-cultural marriage, but
indeed easier...
 BTW it matters naught whether the native was bio-born or adopted
or anything in between. We are taken into the fold of those who
have matching psychic expectation patterns, so that we can
materialize the karma of expectation manifesting into tangible
material reality. One could be raised by wolves so long as the
wolves had the proper karmic signature (just joking, animals are not
complex enough to parent humans).
Reading the D-9 for Read the D-9 with savvy style.
a variety of purposes
It forecasts the spousal character and events that are motivated and
contextualized by one's reactions to other humans (which is to say, the vast
majority of events in life).

The navamsha will not show things like earthquakes, floods, and fires
which are absolutely material but it will show how one interacts and reacts
with other humans in those emergency, life-threatening situations.

 D-9 predicts the native 's own outcome within the"ocean of

emotion" of privileged relationships and eventually as the manifest
physical and social reality of one's future life.
 For example a man with nichha-Budha in radix but uttama-Budha in
navamsha could be said to be moving out communicative fogginess
of nichha-Budha and he is on the way (not there yet) to an uttama
expression of mental narrative. In the meantime he will attract a
sharp-witted and categorically analytical mentalized wife. She will
act out his logical-argumentation process first before he gets full
manifestation.
 Chandra-Mangala yoga in D-9 says fortune for the partner
in financial well-being from matters of Guru and the birth
lineagevia swamsha; in one's present life, the Guru Meena portfolio
which operates on the bridge between material and astral reality, the
bridge between the waking state and the dream or death state, this
bridge wisdom about sounds and images (the vehicles of astral
communication)is getting better developed for you but it's really the
spouse who will enact the stronger purchase on the wisdom in this
present life. For you this divinatory Meena discourse only is
meaningful in spiritual or mystical terms. For the spouse, the sound-
bridge is already manifest and wealth-bringing.

Things don't just manifest once in life and then we're done with that
experience. There is a constant recycling of particulate matter from it's
highest most subtle spiritual state, percolating down into its slightly less
subtle slightly more gross mental-causal state, then further percolating
down to its slighter less subtle than mental but more gross that
physical astral state, then finally if nothing is done about it on those higher
planes, the sense data will materialize on the physical and social share-
human-experience planes.

It's much more efficient to make changes in one's expectations and

 assumptions while those seeds are in their astral state. Examine the D-9 to
see the reactive patterns vis-a-vis other humans, and make changes as
desired.

Links between Almost always there is a powerful connection between one's D-1 graha and
native's D-1 and the spouse's D-9 graha - and of course, vice-versa. That is because the D-9
partner's D-9 shows "recessive" traits, knowledge and awareness which have been
waiting for this particular person to mirror them to oneself as clearly as
possible. When that person is located, one may feel more whole.

Generally, married people realize that getting along with the spouse requires
being honest,, and being honest requires and getting along with one's self. If
it was a love marriage, one may remember the feeling of falling in love, and
if the marriage was arranged there is also a feeling of certainty and a bond is
formed. The higher reason for the bond is that each partner intends to learn
to become more like the other , or at least to become maximally aware of
one's own knowledge by hitting the boundary of the other person, and more
consciously then operating in one's own space.

Dishonest marriages are painful affairs seething with anger and guilt,
victimization and blaming. Honest marriages are exercises in developing
consciousness. It seems terribly ironic but also is brutally logical to
understand that in fact, in the next or parallel life, one is or will"be" the
spouse.

Just as the student becomes the teacher, so the husband becomes the wife
and the wife becomes the husband. The dormant traits will -- through that
spouse's evocative role-modeling -- become manifest. One will, oh yes,
become exactly the opposite of the present self-concept, which self-concept
has been juxtaposed against this inscrutable Other. One will indeed and
must via the march of consciousness become precisely those traits which
seem impossible, bizarre preposterous or undesirable today. The cycle of
incarnations continues until the full ranger of experiences and relationships
and transformations is complete.

To see spouse(s)- to profile the first spouse, Look to the 1/7 axis in D-9 .
partner(s) in
navamsha : traditionally Jyotisha reads the rashi = 7th navamsha-varga bhava as lagna
for the first spouse.

 Exempli gratia, to see the first spouse's values/wealth, consider the

2nd-from-7th in navamsha which is D-9's 8th house (and its lord)
within the D-9.
 To see the first spouse's mother, consider 10th-from-7th, or bandhu
bhava in the navamsha (and its lord) within the D-9.

Keep in mind a peculiarity that is sometimes called the"80/20 rule": 1st

partner may be profiled from either 7th navamsha (most common) or 1st
navamsha.

First, try to match 7th navamsha = spouse's character and known events,
such as 10th-from-7th-navamsha should = partner's profession.

However, if 7th-navamsha cannot be successfully matched to the character

and events of the partner, consider the"20%" possibility that the first spouse
and all of their relationships - parents, children, previous spouses, et-
cetera. - may be more accurately read from the D-9 first bhava, when the D-
9 seventh bhava fails to match.

 It may also be the case that the second spouse/life-partner's lagna

would = 8th navamsha, and second spouse's mother would = 4th-
from-8th or the 12th navamsha. et-cetera.

If there have already been several marriages, it can be easier to test the
profiles of previous spouses against the D-9 first bhava vs. the D-9's 7th
bhava to see which offers a more accurate match to historic reality.

In fact, it may be that there is a correlation between folks who have multiple
marriages and their navamsha patterns, which must be read"spouse-wise"
from the D-9 lagna rather than the D-9's 7th house.

If the birth time is correct and 7th-navamsha doesn't work, then testing for a
better match using 1st navamsha as spousal lagna = warranted.

In Light on Relationships, the respected Jyotishi-team deFouw and Svoboda

discuss this "80/20 rule" D-9 lagna-as-spouse-lagna option.
 The choice between using the navamsha lagnesha-1 or ruler of navamsha-7
as lagna for the first spouse is not a big problem, because all 12 rashi-signs
are "yoked" into six yoga-pairs. For example, Simha must be understood
never in isolation but always as the solar half of the Simha-Kumbha
polarity. (There is no king without commoners; there is no politics without
privilege.)

Best method to find This link represents the aspect of their reality which keeps you linked to
the core character of him or her. This link when articulated can explain what the native is trying
the spouse. to become (or un-become) in the marriage:

IMO, here is single most valuable technique for finding the point
of matching energy which serves to attract the spouse. This matching
energy maintains the work roster within the marriage until at least one of
the parties has completed the transformation from ignorance into wisdom in
regard to the contents of the link.

This small set of core characteristics forms the matching energy link that is
being used to create consciousness of the own preconceptions,
presumptions, and unconscious reactionary behavior.

The vehicle of marriage (including bhakti devotional marriages to a deity)

provides the ongoing psychic laboratory for self-knowledge.

Want to see what you are working on and why?

1. find ruler of bhava-7 = planetary lord of radix seventh house

2. locate ruler of bhava-7 within the navamsha.
3. determine the ruler of this navamsha sign
4. Then find this lord, who rules the navamsha of the yuvatipathi-7,
back in the radix chart
5. study this planet carefully. Study its character, rashi influence,
drishti by sign and house, everything about it. T his is the matching
energy point.
6. Your experience of the spouse is grounded in this point. If
yuvatipathi-7 's navamsha lord is a genial, wise planet in radix, the
marriage relationship will be delightful. The celibate religious often
have exquisite marriage planets! However, if this graha is in a rough
spot, so will be the spouse.
 7. The point is to take responsibility for the connection, the ongoing
psychic tug-of-war with the Other. All those traits that one may have
projected upon the spouse, are indeed the unrecognized or
unacknowledged characteristics of one's own behavior.

D-9 lagna and its When the lord of D-9 lagna, significator of the native 's own behavior in
lord: Basic marriage, falls into a dusthamsha (6, 8, 12), there are negative implications
Attitudes toward for marriage.
Marriage
 6 (Budha-ruled) = jealous and overtly warlike, with the likelihood of
chronic animosity.
 8 (Kuja-ruled) = secretive and conniving, with the prospect of
catastrophic upheaval.
 12 (Guru-ruled) = not conflicted but tends to become disconnected.
The marriage energy gets dissolved by spiritual concerns.

When the lord of D-9 occupies radix lagna, the native's personality
dominates the marriage.

If the D-9 lord becomes strong and dominating, such as hot uttama or
swakshetra graha, spousal concerns must"take a back seat" to the native 's
personality development

Spouse-partner must often"take it or leave it" having little power to

negotiate for accommodation or change which might conflict with the direct
interests of the native 's personality growth.

Navamsha and Soulmate The navamsha can define the soulmate (or soulmates)

.... if soulmate can be defined as

.... the person(s) with whom one is karmically, etherically,

astrally scheduled to yoke in this lifetime.
In other words, the soulmate shares with you
the recognition that you are both engaged in a profound
agreement, contract, obligation, attraction * akarshana *,
and work plan to participate in an extended,
sustaining balancing yoga.

Can the nature of these partners and their entrance into the
life-theatre be seen via Jyotisha? Yes. Do these soul-
partners look beautiful, act sweet, and add instant material
pleasure? Rarely.

Perhaps the single most important misunderstanding of

this soulmate concept, as popularized in modern
discourse, is the idea that soulmates must share the
material space, that they are natural marriage partners, or
that they even have flesh bodies.

Soulmate is an astral identity. It has no inherent material

value. Many people in fact find that their soulmate(s) lives
primarily in the astral or causal realm.

 Navamsha shows the profile of one's partner(s)

with whom one has agreed to partner - long before
the current birth - for the purpose of advancing
one's spiritual development.

The disjunct between the modern western concept

of"soulmate"and the profile of spouse in navamsha is,
however, that the"soulmate concept" has been
commercially marketed. Unfortunately, the modern
western concept of"soulmate" tends to be immature,
sugar-coated and materialistic.

 Look to the 7th navamsha for dominant pattern

of expectations of the spouse. The partner whose
Chandra matches one's 1-7 navamsha axis (or
one's navamsha nodal axis) is that soul-mate,
meant to be. Not easy - just properly matched!

By contrast, Authentic Marriage is one of the most

difficult spiritual practices available.
 As Dr. Phil says,

 "Marriage is not a long date.

 It's a partnership.
 Partnerships involve give-and-take and sacrifice.
 Men are really bad about understanding this."

If one's concept of soulmate" can mature into the full

expression of committed partnership, with all the ego-
stress and material difficulty that long-term commitment
enforces, then one will discover that the navamsha of
one's own nativity gives a very accurate picture of
one's soulmate.

Dr. Phil the television psychologist, [QUOTATION] Q:

speaking on the "Soulmate"
 Many people say that when it comes to marriage,
concept:
they're seeking nothing less than a soul mate. Is
-- Dr. Phil writing on Soulmates - that asking too much?
Ladies' Home Journal magazine,
January 2006 Dr. Phil:

What's a soul mate?

It's just a term somebody made up, and with it comes

some pretty mystical expectations.

I've long believed that if you're looking for that perfect

partner, you're making a big mistake.

If you can find an 80 percent fit and hope that you'll grow
together on the other 20 percent, you'll find happiness a
lot quicker.

You wait for a 100 percent partner and you're going to be

looking a long time, maybe forever.

But if you're okay on the core issues -- children, careers,

division of labor, religion, handling in-laws -- then you

Q:
I 've been told that the navamsha
represents the second half of life ?
Also, does the navamsha have
something to do with marriage? Can
you tell me what the navamsha is, and
how to read it, and what I should be
looking for to indicate ups and downs?
I think my marriage is excellent but I
want to be realistic about what to
expect. My parents had their struggles
and I imagine hubby and I will too : )
I think I can use the radix pretty well,
tracking the Vimshottari Dasha and the
major transits but the navamsha I'm
just not sure how to use it as a separate
chart or an extension of the radix??
jump in and handle the other things as they come along.
A:Navamsha for marriage evaluation and prediction
The navamsha is equally important to the radix birth chart
(kundali). The Navamsha reveals the psycho-spiritual path
whereas the radix reveals the material-social manifestation
of events.
Because the navamsha indicates the spiritual orientation,
and because marriage is the primary spiritual practice for
most people(including people who are married to
their ishta-devata such as celibate monks and nuns) the
navamsha is the primary indicator of the behavior of the
spouse and one's psycho-spiritual response to that
behavior
The spouse-mate is not a separate person; the spouse is a
projected extension of the self. Remember this mate can
easily be using the angelic astral body or even the
conceptual mental body. The mate need not use a
fleshbody. (And if the mate is not using that protector-
shell of the fleshbody, it is much easier to recognize that
this being is a part of oneself; not separate.)
Implicitly in all readings whether for radix placements or
navamsha placements we assume that one is creating one's
own reality on a minute to minute basis.
Therefore when events are predicted based on the radix
chart or when the spouse's behavior is predicted based on
the navamsha chart the origin of all phenomena whether
psychic, psychological, material, social, emotional,
mental, financial, or political is always the native 's own
subconscious.
Although few people have the skills to enter their own
subconscious and make adjustments to the originating
thoughts, some people can make changes while in
meditation and some can use clairsentient psychic healing
or other devices to consciously alter the projection.

Most people however simply sleep-walk through the

prewritten script believing that things happen"to" them.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, but that is what
the sleeping mind asserts. In fact, the navamsha like any
other varga shows the plan which one's spirit has designed
for spiritual progress via the means of marriage, and other
intimate interactions with others.

Spouse as spiritual helper and Guru

The spouse shows what we are becoming, the spouse

reflects back the pieces of the personality that have been
hidden in the subconscious but are just now emerging into
the field of awareness.

The spouse is a spiritual helper who shows one the parts

of oneself - good, bad, and neutral - which need to be
known and acknowledged so that one can proceed along
the spiritual path toward merger with the divine.

The spouse is a great spiritual helper and the spouse

should be appreciated even to the point where in some
cultures the spouse is actually worshipped.

Spiritually the fact that spouse's show us mysterious and

hidden wisdom about one's true behavior not the ego's
false ideal is a reason to acknowledge that one's spouse is
one's guru. It is really amazingthe amount of information
about the self that one's spouse can expose just in daily
interaction.

One attracts the matching object to the inner

expectation image.
This inner psychic image is described in the navamsha.

It is the funny truth that we attract partners who provide

us with the missing puzzle pieces about the own
personalities.

Partners, especially the long committed partners, reflect

back like a mirror the parts of one's own subconscious
projection of which one is not yet consciously aware. That
is why marriage is such an intense and essential spiritual
practice. One comes to understand that everything the
spouse is doing is nothing more or less than a direct
projection of one's own expectations and memories. Once
that realization is in place the practice of marriage
becomes a matter of"Projection Management".

However in the beginning there is the semi-conscious

experience of the spouse as being a separate person with
their own motive force who imposes conditions upon the
native and these restrictions can create discomfort as well
as support.

Look into the navamsha to see what type of subconscious

projection pattern the native has designed to be made
manifest through the agency of the marriage partner.
Remember that the marriage partner is merely an agent
and that all of the behaviors of the spouse are mirror
projections of one's own paradigm of belief.

When astrologers say that navamsha is the chart for

marriage and the navamsha is the chart for spiritual
characteristics, they mean the same thing. Navamsha rules
the higher self and that is what the spouse will expose,
whether we can recognize what is exposed as having a
'higher' value or not.

For a navamsha with Karkata lagna, look to Chandra to

shape the profile of one's own expectations for one's own
behavior in marriage

 Karkata lagna has no occupying graha, therefore

we get most of the information about how you
 operate in relationships especially marriage by
examining the lord of Karkata who is Chandra.
 Go to the radix to find Chandra and see how you
act in relationships on the material plane.
 Relationships can be very complex. Start with the
planetary ruler of swamsha At first, inspect only
the overall archetypal behaviors, which are
according to Chandra's nature both very maternal
and parental, protective and lushly sensual in a
healing style. Additionally, because Mangala casts
drishti upon Chandra in a rashi of Mangala, there
may be identified a pattern of aggressive behavior
emotionally in marriage, with a need to be in
control that is rooted in early childhood trauma.
 Chandra-nichha (fallen) condition receiving the
outward-propelled drishti of Mangala according to
Jyotisha tradition indicates a mother with an
invasive, penetrating electro-magnetic emotional
style. She may due to her disregard for boundaries
plunge past respectful psychic limits and enter the
realm of emotional abuse.

All daughters eventually imitate their mothers when their

own children are born and parenting behaviors naturally
imitate the treatment one grew up with. The navamsha
suggests that in marriage relationships you have a
penetrating, boundary-invading style of emotional
bonding with the spouse.

 To the extent that the spouse has a corresponding

set of expectations (which he will!) he will enjoy
being sheltered, protected, and parented by an
electro-magnetic emotionally dominating partner.
 The spouse welcomes you as one who tries to
acquire and maintain more power in the
relationship than is ultimately sustainable.

(Chandra is fallen in Vrizchika not because emotional

invasion and manipulative control is morally bad, but
because as a pragmatic life strategy it simply fails.)

Most spouses are deeply attracted to each other so none of

this incisive vocabulary is meant as a criticism. We are
simply looking at the pattern of expectationsand how
certain behaviors by oneself and by the spouse fulfill the
pre-existing expectationswhich have been part of the life
script for many incarnations.

Getting Wise to the Navamsha Mirror-cycle

At some point in their reincarnational cycle, people

burn out on marriage. The karmic completion point occurs
when it becomes clear that mating = a mirrors game = one
partner reflects back to the other partner the contents of
each other's subconscious mind.

At the burn-out or abandonment point (= "ketu") a yogi,

monk, or other celibate-by-choice will usually figure out
that it is more efficient to work on one's own subconscious
without taking the polarizing catalysis to get into high
drama interaction with the mirror.

At that point they quit getting married and arrange to get

born conveniently near a monastery or a nice cave, then as
soon as marriage time comes around they conveniently
disappear into the cloisters...

of course neither you nor I are quite there yet so when

reading the navamsha it will help to have a smile and say,
oh boy, look what the future may hold.

The parent's marriage replays during one's own marriage.

The parents marriage is represented in the perhaps
unexaminedexpectations which are embedded in the sun-
moon (father-mother) angle within the navamsha.

Making Changes to the Navamsha Script?

Is there a way to alter these expectations whether they are

apparently positive or apparently negative? (In reality the
expectations are just script, and there is no harm in letting
them play out, but of course it is fearful to anticipate
events which may seem to have a moral or immoral
quality. Really, don't worry.)

YES it is actually quite easy to adjust

one's expectations by looking into one's own heart and
becoming very clear about precisely what one wants (that
is easier) and precisely what one fears (that is scarier) in a
relationship.

 Until one is able to perform intensive introspection

and re-scripting then the defaults of the navamsha
which are carry-overs from triumphs and
disappointments of parallel lives , will control the
outcome of the projections.

But absolutely yes it is possible if one can resist the urge

to judge and react, but rather simply look into the
expectations carried over from childhood, then discuss not
with the partner but with ONESELF what fears can be
released, very major changes are possible.

But that is a big 'if' as most people are buffeted by public

opinion, fear of abandonment, fear of non-conformity,
fear of freedom,et-cetera. and so the script has a great deal
of control and they feel rather like victims of another's
actions. That is sad, because they could feel like authors
of a great novel! It is all in the consciousness.

Reading the Navamsha as an independent chart

The navamsha is very important in evaluation and

assessment of any nativity, and it is especially important
for timing the milestone emotional experiences like
marriage and the birth of the first child. It can be read as a
separate chart which responds to transits and corresponds
to the Vimshottari Dasha.

Also transits to the navamsha are significant for major life

events.

Marriage nearly always occurs when transiting Rahu-

Ketu are traveling across either swamsha, the navamsha
Rahu-Ketu axis, the radix lagna or axis, or the axis of the
radix Moon.

 Right now Rahu-Ketu are transiting your 6-12

navamsha, which is not disruptive, but which
causes deep inner reflection upon marriage as a
spiritual practice and ultimately causes you to
think about ultimate realities such as the passage
back over the bridge to the astral plane from
whence we came and to which we all return.

Navamsha is also important for determination of

marital compatibility.

In long-lasting marriages with high levels of mutual

emotional recognition (empathy) and long term
compatibility, we should see the radix Moon of partner-1
matching the navamsha lagna (swamsha) or the navamsha
nodal axis of partner-2, and vice versa.

 Therefore one indicator of compatibility for you

who have a Karkata Navamsha lagna and nodes in
the navamsha Meena-Kanya axis, is when your
spouse has a Jyotisha radix Moon in Karkata,
Makara, Meena, or Kanya rashi.
 If the spouse's moon is not in one of these four
rashi, then there is also a good compatibility if the
spouse has Chandra-Vrishabha because you have a
radix Vrizchika lagna, but the Vrishabha-Chandra
for a spouse should be accompanied by more
supporting matches to ensure longevity of the
partnership.
 The best spousal matches for you who
have Karkata Navamsha lagna and nodes in the
navamsha Meena-Kanya axis plus a Shani-
ruled Anuradha Chandra in radix lagna would be a
 spouse with Shani-ruled Chandra in Uttara-bhadra-
pada * comforted by wisdom systems * protectors
of compassionate order, providers of structured
spiritual guidance, mature expansion of
distributed care or Shani-ruled Chandra in
Pushyami * comforted by lawful customs *
protectors of the ethno-social structure, sensitive
legislators, sober caretakers, legally minded
environmentalists

And yes it can be said that the navamsha indicates the

second half of life because almost everyone makes a mid-
life values switch from material to spiritual, reflecting an
awareness of impending death but also a disappointment
with material attainments, somewhere in mid-life
depending on the dasha timeline.

Navamsha = who the spouse is now = who is the native

in next life

 The spouse shows what the native is becoming, the

spouse reflects back the pieces of the personality
that have been hidden in the subconscious but are
just now emerging into the field of awareness.
 The spouse is a spiritual helper who shows one the
parts of one's own elf - good, bad, and neutral -
which need to be known and acknowledged so that
one can proceed along the spiritual path toward
merger with the divine.

Yes it is complicated, requiring many reflections and fine-

combing to find patterns which one is conscious enough
to acknowledge

Hopefully the above discussion is helpful for your

increasing understanding of Jyotisha. Considerable study
is required to understand the myriad implications of any
nativity. But your study will be rewarded in value of self-
knowledge, and the more you reflect on one's own
divinity, the most you will be able to use your own

Q:
Navamsha represents both soul and
spouse?
My spouse doesn't seem to"appear" in
my D-9. In fact, his behavior is quite
the opposite of what I would expect to
see in my deepest inner self.
I have a beautiful soul; but he is hardly
a beautiful person. In fact, he appears
quite physically and morally ugly to
me.
interpretive powers to help others who are seeking clarity
and release.
Wishing you best success in Jyotisha studies,
Sincerely, BP Lama
A: Namaste,
Regarding the varga function representing both 'soul' and
'spouse', the philosophical principle underlying the
multiple meanings of the D-9 navamsha varga is that
lacking a full understanding of the Self, one attracts others
who provide essential mirrors to reflect the missing
information.
Ideally, the native would possess
adequate consciousness to appreciate that each behavior of
the partner is a spiritual offering of a much-needed mirror
that provides information that one cannot detect unaided,
at least in the current state of mind. This is true whether a
marriage partner, a work partner, or an Other in any polar
arrangement including the Other in the spiritual form of
anishtadevata.
AAccording to this principle of relationships serving as
"mirrors ", one of the reasons that some people choose to
enter monasteries might be that their ishtadevata, the
divine god of their heart, might be sending stronger easier-
to-interpret information signals that their human-to-human
partners, and these monastics might want to focus
primarily on these spiritually characterized signals.
Others might marry someone who appears to act
aggressively, disrespectfully, or dismissively toward the
native. However according to the mirror principle there is
nothing ultimately wrong with getting the missing
information in this fashion.
The process of filling in the missing pieces of the Source-
Self is like composing a large jigsaw puzzle. All methods
for obtaining this missing consciousness are ultimately
successful. Various methods are more complex, simple,
difficult, easy, resistant, smooth, painful, pleasurable,
quick, or time-consuming - however they are all
ultimately successful.

Sometimes the Mirrored Information is socially approved,

or socially disapproved; sometimes it is comfortable or
uncomfortable; sometimes the missing information is
exciting or boring, healthy or deadly, vulgar or delightful.
Yet it is always essential to the life progress. Every type
of descriptive adjective can be used to describe mirror
relationships and the information conveyed within them.
The D-9 is fascinating and worth a lifetime of study!

Sometimes a soul may be suffering under layers and

layers of fear, shame, judgment, anxiety, self-contempt,
and other effects of traumatic ego-injury. Such an ego-
injured personality may be so saturated with pain that
they might temporarily be unable to accept the mirrored
information."Temporarily" may mean for the length of an
hour, or lasting through several incarnations.

Others other humans, as well as spiritual personalities,

guides, angels. Despite having constructed a detailed plan
to partner with this Other personality, when the time
comes to mirror-signal each other, one or both parties may
have reached a state of injured misery that forces them to
interpret the incoming information as dangerous or
hostile.

The incoming information may feel toxic, invalidating, or

threatening. The Other may be perceived as hateful, evil,
intolerable, or horribly wrong. However even in this
miserable condition, some personalities may be able to
utilize the mirrored information to add to their conscious
Source-completeness in a positive way, by interpreting the
offensive signals from the Other as a constructive
boundary defining what one is "not".
So, even in a toxic state, one may be able to profit from as
clear-headed-as-possible evaluation of the navamsha. If
one is suffering from ego-injury, the first ego-defensive
instinct may be to project one's own misery into blame of
Other.

It is easy and common for the ego-injured to preemptively

block unmanageable incoming information
as wrong or not me by projecting the shame, the guilt,
the grief, the fear of failure, and other drama of ignorance
upon the Other. In this painful, self-defensive state of
Mind, the D-9 will not make sense unless it is seen as a
neat definition of what I am not.

But even in the polarized mentality, the D-9 is worthy of

study. As the pain begins to heal, one may begin to see
that even an apparently adversarial Other was
intentionally placed into the life stream to provide more
insight into the phenomenon of psychic polarization in
general, and into one's particular personality traits pulls in
particular.

Eventually the dialogue of 'what I am, what I'm not' will

mature into a broader understanding that one is ALL of
those opposites, and further that the sum is greater than its
parts. All of the all is contained in each One of One.

Each and every Other-self in this lifetime is a step on the

ladder to self-realization, and the D-9 carefully defines 12
of those steps.